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Social Protection and Rural Poverty (micro-course)

Self-paced course.
In the entire world, 70% of the population lacks adequate access to social protection with the majority of them living in rural areas. Social protection, when designed, implemented, and coordinated appropriately can generate a broad range of positive...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
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Adaptive Social Protection (micro-course)

Self-paced course.
Social protection programmes delivered to the poorest and most vulnerable households, when designed appropriately, can have a transformative impact on their resilience to covariate shocks. Through the provision of transfers and services to the poorest...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
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Integrated and digital social protection information systems (micro-course)

Self-paced course.
Developing an integrated and digital information system is a crucial step in building a national social protection system, because it enables the flow and management of information within the social protection sector and between social protection and...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
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Social protection programmes (micro-course)

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Social protection programmes and interventions have a wide range of policy objectives, from poverty alleviation to employment promotion, and they target different population groups (formal workers, elderly and people with disabilities, vulnerable...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
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What is Social Protection? An introduction (micro-course)

Self-paced course.
Social protection is often associated broadly with policies and programmes that seek to protect people from poverty and vulnerability. However, there is no universal definition of social protection and different organisations adopt different definitions...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
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